Mahalo Nui Loa and Happy Halloween

Aloha Everyone;
Hope all is well and safe with everyone. Weather changes have been drastic all around, I'm getting addicted to the Weather Channel.
I just got a wonderful package in the mail today, filled with omiyage (gifts) from Joy! Mahalo nui loa (very big thank you) Joy! It was fun to take Flat Leilani around with me, I'm sure she'll stop by for a visit from time to time.
Mahalo nui loa to Brenda too! I received some great goodies from her when she delivered my order. It was great seeing you again Brenda. I haven't started using my new toys yet, but I will. I've been busy with Halloween treats for the grand babies.
I learned to make an easy box and top without using a diecut machine. It's big enough to fill it with lots of sweets and treats; 4" square. Easy definitely, making 7 of them for 7 GCs definitely takes time.

quick and easy-full of sweet treats!

  My DD asked me to make a birthday card for her friend's little girl, who just happens to love Hello Kitty. So, I had to throw something together quickly; her birthday is this weekend. I love using my Cricut, when it comes to HK-I can make them in different sizes.

This black kitty is a cutie!

I've been working on a tutorial for the tea light cake; hope to have it up in a day or so. For now, keep on crafting, keep on creating.
Aloha,

Fun Cardmaking and New Friends

Aloha Everyone,
I love doing new things and this weekend I did just that. I spent the good part of Saturday having such a wonderful time making great greeting cards. I stamped, punched, embossed, cut, glued and tied. Just look what I made!

slider card

Cool favors from Brenda

 I know this group of wonderfully talented girls worked hard at putting this event together because it was well organized. In our packages there were 4 packets with enough material to make 3 cards of each design; that's 12 cards in one day! The packages were personalized with our names on them and we had favors of the upcoming holiday.
There were door prizes, raffles and tons of items to buy. We were also able to participate in a silent auction, how cool is that.
I've already signed up for the next event, can't wait to see what's in store next.
Aloha,

Metis Linen Giveaway!

Aloha Everyone;
I'm so excited about Laura Ingalls-Gunn's and her partner Andrea Drexelius' giveaway. It's a basketful of beautiful French Linen. Please go visit her site: http://decortoadore.blogspot.com. 
If you like vintage and French styles please stop and have a look. Laura has 2 blogspots, the one mentioned above and http://metislinen.blogspot.com. If you want to enter the contest, please go to decortoadore.blogspot.com. 
I've entered and I sure would love to win.
Aloha,

And the Winner Is...

Aloha Everyone;
This is the last day of September and I promised a winner to be picked for my blogaversary. And by the way I did use a hat, I only had to put 3 names in it, only 3 people entered. So the winner is...Brenda Ballesteros! Congratulations Brenda! Email me with your address sweetie so that I can send the book to you.
Thank you Becky and 1luvnmama for entering the give-away. Also thank you to Teri for your comment, I so appreciate it. If you all could email me your address, I do have a token of appreciation to send the three you.
So with this done I can get on with blogging.
Last week was a very busy week for me. I was lucky enough to participate in one of my grand-daughter's school grandparents' day celebration. We made a kite that really did fly; decorated it and put it together from scratch. Because of the wet weather we couldn't go out to fly it right away, but we finally did and I was quite surprised that it stayed up as long as the wind took it. Finally we had lunch together, then I waited for school to get out, so we could go shopping; early out Wednesday.

 After a day with my grand-daughter, I spent the next day finishing the last minute details for another gc's birthday tea party for Saturday. That was fun and my daughter and I had a great time making favors. I made purse favors and dd made covered comp. books. We had a mixture of boys and girls, so we had to improvise.

We all had a grand time! Malia got great gifts, we all had great food, the children had fun fishing for prizes and dipping in and out of the wading pool. When everyone went home, hubby and I couldn't wait for bedtime.
I have an exciting fun weekend coming up, I'll be sure to to fill you in later.
Aloha,

Blog Give Away!

Aloha everyone,
It's hard to believe I started this blog a year ago, I'm still working out the kinks and I still have much to learn about blogging.
I started to blog for a couple of reasons. I enjoy writing, it's like talking, only without the interruptions. And if I lose my train of thought, no one knows but me! Secondly, I love visiting other peoples' blogs who also enjoy crafting, cardmaking, sewing, vintage things and obviously those of us that blog must enjoy the art of writing.
Having said that, I wanted to do a give away. I mentioned the give away in an earlier post but I don't know how to do all the whistles and blinkies yet, so I'm sure the post will get lost. You can scroll down to the Sept. 7 post to see what the gift is. Now I'm sure I lost some followers, hopefully they'll catch notice that I'm back and enter the give away. I'll leave this on the top for this month.
Aloha,